When classes started up I was amazed when I realized how much I really missed being in a semester! I love the smell of a new class! I'm anticipating a nominally busy semester, but with really exciting content!

"Apologetics and Outreach" is a class that everyone on campus talks about as being one of the best! The focus in class will be in understanding how the Gospel interacts with the world and how the world interacts with the Gospel. How are Christians to understand non-Christians? How do we love all people? How can we speak into the general discontentment that the world experiences? What does it mean when someone says, "Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really searching for God."

"Pentateuch" this is a class on the first five books of the Old Testament. It will be taught similar to my "Gospels" class and my "Acts and Paul" in that the focus is familiarizing us with the content of those books of the Bible, but also in really equipping us to study them for all they are worth. I have found these classes to be among the most valuable of all that I have been taught so far!

"Reformation and Modern Church History" is the continuation of the church history class I took in the fall. The Bible calls the church as "the bride of Christ" so while it is full of ugly faults it is also dearly loved. These are great classes to challenge us into thinking both critically and generously about church history.

"Christ and Salvation" is a class about the systematic doctrines concerning the person of Christ, his work of salvation, how salvation is applied, and similar topics. We will be asking what the Bible teaches and what we truly believe to be true about these things. This class will likely be my most vigorous.

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Hello, I am Jason Knox

I'm going to Seminary for lots of bad reasons. I have good reasons too and now I'm trying to live a life of putting aside the bad ones, really pursuing the good ones, and being open to surprises. It's been a strange journey to get me to this point. I think what I've realized is that I actually do have certain life goals: 1) To fall deeper in love with Christ and 2) help Christians understand Christianity better (namely by allowing them to fall more madly in love with Christ too). In light of that, I've decided to come up with some career goals that are quite similar to my life goals (makes the list easier to remember). That's why I'm going to seminary. I'm taking steps to be a pastor of a church. I'm at Covenant Theological Seminary because what I want is to say with Paul, "For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified" and I have become convinced that Covenant is an institution that is committed to not only knowing about Christ but just actually KNOWING Christ. More than anything the best way to combat all of the bad reasons I have for going to seminary is to encounter and embrace Jesus. I want to be in a place surrounded by the people who wrote to me in a letter saying, "The education of our students is far more than a merely academic exercise--it is our ministry to you and to those whom you will serve in Christ's Church. Our goal is to walk with you--not only through your seminary years, but also well beyond--so that, by God's grace and for His glory, you may faithfully fulfill the ministry to which He is calling you." I'm so excited.

I'm (still) learning to be more open with people and offering of myself. This blog is a step in that direction (like a band-aid on a missing limb).